Magnificent Prayer #38
Magnificent Prayer #38
If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened;
but God has surely listened and heard my voice in prayer.
Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his love from me!
Psalm 66:18–20
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.
E. M. BOUNDS
Pray About It: If we have trouble praying, we should ask ourselves if the problem is known sin in our life. When we willingly and repeatedly sin, we hand over to Satan a poisonous weapon that he will eagerly use against us. Faith is undermined by sin. A clouded conscience can’t pray rightly. The irony is that prayer will either keep us from sinning, or sinning will keep us from prayer.
But praise be to God, He will not reject our prayer or withhold His love. As we depart from sin, we remove Satan’s weapon and our faith is strengthened.
Search yourself today and be done with any known sin.
Prayer will make a Christian cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
JOHN BUNYAN
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